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Fort Myers Beach bridge roadways were inundated when Hurricane Helene moved through the area on Thursday, Sept. 26, 2024. A view of Fort Myers Beach after Hurricane Helene moved through.
September 1–4 – For two days, the NHC forecasted that powerful Hurricane Dorian would move ashore southeastern Florida. The hurricane ultimately stalled over The Bahamas and remained east of the state. Wind gusts reached 69 mph (111 km/h) in New Smyrna Beach. Dorian also produced a storm surge of 4.25 ft (1.30 m) in Fernandina Beach.
The hardest-hit areas were in Lee County, where catastrophic damage occurred as Ian pushed a destructive 10–15 ft (3.0–4.6 m) storm surge into Fort Myers Beach, Sanibel Island, and Bonita Springs, just south of where its eye made landfall. [72]
Devastation in Southwest Florida following Hurricane Ian’s destruction is palpable. ABC Action News reporter Heather Leigh, and photojournalist Michael Brantley spoke to residents and heard ...
Ten days after Hurricane Ian crashed into Southwest Florida as a dangerous, high-end Category 4 storm on Sept. 28, the first group of residents returned to Fort Myers Beach — one of the areas ...
Fort Myers: Yes No Yes 4 Gusted to 155 mph (249 km/h) [36] Unnamed: 1948 September 22: Southern peninsula No Yes No 4 Gusted to 122 mph (196 km/h) [37] Unnamed: 1949: August 26–27: Delray Beach, South Florida No No Yes 4 Resembled 1928 hurricane [38] Easy: 1950 September 3–7: Cedar Key, peninsula No Yes No 3 Was wettest tropical cyclone on ...
Chad Gillis, Fort Myers News-Press October 1, 2022 at 1:11 PM Hurricane Ian plowed into Southwest Florida Wednesday afternoon as a devastating and deadly Category 4 storm.
Hurricane Ian was a devastating tropical cyclone which was the third costliest weather disaster on record worldwide. It was also the deadliest hurricane to strike the state of Florida since the 1935 Labor Day hurricane, and the strongest hurricane to make landfall in Florida since Michael in 2018.